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Special Workshop on Knowledge Translation and Brokering

A knowledge exchange and networking event organized by Environment Canada’s Science and Technology Liaison, ResearchImpact, the Canadian Water Network and other collaborators, under the auspices of the Canadian Science Policy Conference.

The first multi-sectoral event of its kind in Canada, the Special Workshop on Knowledge Translation and Brokering (KT/KB) will provide a dynamic and interactive forum for participants to network, share experiences and explore the role of KT/KB in strengthening science-policy linkages. The full-day workshop will take place on October 20, 2010 directly preceding the official opening of the Canadian Science Policy Conference. With a focus on engagement and learning, the agenda includes a keynote address by Andrew Campbell, an internationally recognized leader in KT/KB, open space to engage participants in focussed discussion, skills and capacity building sessions, and a panel with Canada’s KT/ KB leaders. Participants will have the opportunity to develop new networks and knowledge, exchange best practices, and contribute to an active and growing KT/KB community. The workshop will speak broadly across sectors (including environment, agriculture and health), with relevance to those working at the science-policy interface, operating as knowledge brokers and/or translators, or seeking to develop contacts and greater awareness in this field. Participants are expected from government, academia, industry and other areas.

As a special feature of this workshop, you will be contacted by the workshop facilitators and invited to participate in "pre-workshop" networking exercises.  This process will also provide you access to choose from three unique  Skills and Capacity "mini-sessions", and allow you to provide input on priority items to move forward knowledge translation and brokering for discussion during the Knowledge Cafe portion of this unique Workshop.

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1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Workshops II : Career Development Workshop

So You Want to do Science Policy...
A Career Development Workshop: Interested in working in science policy but not sure where to turn? Join us for an interactive workshop to explore career possibilities and job-seeking strategies in science policy. You'll have the opportunity to hear from and interact with a variety of science policy professionals at various stages of their careers and who have walked quite different paths to get to where they are. Whether your background is in the sciences, engineering, public policy or whatever, if you have an interest in working in science policy this workshop is an excellent opportunity to expand your professional network. The workshop will also be your opportunity to suggest how the Canadian Science Policy Centre can best support your career development needs and aspirations in science policy.

3:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. Workshops III: The Making of a Science Entrepreneur

The Making of a Science Entrepreneur: The Federal Science and Technology Strategy speaks of fostering in Canada "a culture that values and rewards ingenuity and entrepreneurship." This workshop will provide an interactive opportunity to examine the concept of Science Entrepreneurship. Participants will ask the hard questions and explore potential answers regarding scientists as entrepreneurs and the role of entrepreneurship in science. What does it mean? What are we trying to achieve by driving this concept? Should science entrepreneurship be built into our educational pipeline, and if so, how? And how can we best support this concept at the provincial and federal levels? We look forward to hearing your thoughts and ideas on science entrepreneurship and how it can be fostered in Canada.

Peter Hackett
Executive Professor, & Special Advisor, Vice-president Research
University of Alberta

Bonnie Schmidt, PhD
President & Founder
Let’s Talk Science

Dr. Bonnie Schmidt began her science outreach activities in 1991 while completing her doctoral degree in physiology at The University of Western Ontario. She formally launched Let’s Talk Science upon graduating in 1993.

Bonnie has been active in many national and provincial organizations and initiatives. She currently serves as the founding President of the Science & Technology Awareness Network (STAN) and is a Director of the Ontario Genomics Institute. She recently served as a member of the Ontario government’s Early Learning Experts Panel. She has also served on grant selection committees at Industry Canada and NSERC, as well as NSERC's national communication committee.

Bonnie has organized sessions on science outreach at national and international academic conferences and has been an invited speaker at numerous science and education forums, including the 2006 OECD Conference on Global Science, ‘Declining Student Enrolment in Science & Technology’. She has also published several academic papers and abstracts on her research into informal science learning.

For her efforts in education, Bonnie has received several awards, including the Top 40 Under 40; Queen’s Golden Jubilee Award; Ontario’s “Leading Women, Building Communities”; YWCA’s Woman of Distinction; and The University of Western Ontario’s Young Alumni Award.

Chairperson
Pierre Noreau, Ph.D
President
ACFAS

Pierre Noreau is a professor with the Faculty of Law at the University of Montreal. His research revolves around the operation and the evolution of the legal system, access to justice and indigenous governorship. Pierre Noreau holds a doctorate at the Institute of political Studies of Paris. He is also President of French-speaking Association for the knowledge (the ACFAS) and Director of the Office of Americas of the university Agency of the Francophonie.

Dr. Nina Fedoroff, Ph.D
Willaman Professor of the Life Sciences
Evan Pugh Professor Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
Penn State University

Willaman Professor of the Life Sciences and Evan Pugh Professor, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Penn State University, Distinguished Visiting Professor, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), and Member, External Faculty, The Santa Fe Institute

Nina V. Fedoroff, a leading geneticist and molecular biologist, is the Willaman Professor of Life Sciences and Evan Pugh Professor of Biology at the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University. Fedoroff is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the European Academy of Sciences, as well as other scientific associations. Fedoroff has received several awards and honors, including the 2006 National Medal of Science and the New York Academy of Sciences’ Outstanding Contemporary Woman Scientist award in 1992. She is currently a member of the Science Steering Committee of the Santa Fe Institute and the Board of Directors of the Sigma-Aldrich Chemical Company.

Economic downturns can be viewed as an opportunity for thinkers and innovators to establish new paths for commercial success. In a knowledge driven society, Research, Development, and enabling policies are key components of this new growth. Capitalization on an economic downturn to increase growth in Science, technology, and commercialization are explored in this panel.

Moderator
Gilles G. Patry, Ph.D
President and CEO
Canada Foundation for Innovation

On August 1, 2010, Dr. Gilles G. Patry became the fourth President and CEO of the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). Following a long and distinguished career as a consultant, a researcher, and a university administrator, Dr. Patry brings to the CFI a wealth of experience from both the private and academic sector .

Dr. Patry holds a B.A.Sc. and M.A.Sc. in civil engineering from the University of Ottawa, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis in environmental engineering. He was an environmental engineering consultant (1971-78) before becoming professor of civil engineering at École Polytechnique de Montréal (1978-83) and then at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont. (1983-93). Dr. Patry’s research program at McMaster led him to develop an innovative modelling concept for the simulation of wastewater treatment plant dynamics, and ultimately, to launch a Hamilton-based consulting company, Hydromantis, Inc. His research focuses on modelling, simulation and control of environmental systems.

Chad Gaffield, Ph.D
President
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Chad Gaffield, one of Canada’s foremost historians, was appointed president of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) on September 18, 2006. Gaffield came to SSHRC from the University of Ottawa, where he held a University Research Chair and was the founding director of the Institute of Canadian Studies. During his 20-year University of Ottawa career, he also served as vice-dean of graduate studies and on the executive committee of the board of governors. He is a former president of the Canadian Historical Association and the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Robert Prichard
Vice-Chair
Science, Technology and Innovation Council

Mr. J. Robert S. Prichard is the Chair of Torys LLP, an international business law firm, and Chair of the Board of Directors of Metrolinx. He is also past President and CEO of Metrolinx. Mr. Prichard is also past President and Chief Executive Officer of Torstar Corporation and President Emeritus of the University of Toronto where he previously served as dean of law and as a professor specializing in law and economics. Mr. Prichard is a director of Bank of Montreal, Onex Corporation and George Weston Ltd. He also serves as Vice-Chair of Canada's Science, Technology and Innovation Council, Chairman of the Visiting Committee of Harvard Law School and a director of the Toronto Community Foundation.

Heather Munroe-Blum, O.C., Q.C., Ph.D
Principal/Vice-Chancellor
McGill University

Heather Munroe-Blum became 16th Principal (President) and Vice-Chancellor and senior officer of McGill University in 2003. An accomplished scholar in the fields of epidemiology and public policy and a distinguished administrator, Prof. Munroe-Blum is a member of McGill’s Faculty of Medicine and a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health. She has dedicated her career to the advancement of higher education, science and innovation, in Canada and internationally, advising governments and other organizations on the role that universities, research and highly qualified talent play in advancing international competitiveness and enriching societies. She is the author of the groundbreaking report “Growing Ontario’s Innovation System: The Strategic Role of University Research” that led to the creation of a new framework of science policies and programs in Ontario.

Among her main objectives as Principal of McGill is a commitment to strengthen the university’s leadership at the world level with respect to research, graduate education, student experience and positive societal contribution. Hallmarks to date of her leadership at McGill have been advancement of governance, promotion of strategic areas of excellence and impact in research and scholarship, and enrichment of the student experience. Her Principal’s Task Force on Student Life and Learning, has led to measures and improvements to enhance the university experience for McGill’s 34,000 students.

Dr. Geneviève Tanguay, Ph.D
Assistant Deputy Minister
Ministry of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade, Québec Government

Dr Geneviève Tanguay became assistant deputy minister in the ministry of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade in January 2007. She is responsible for the Research, Science, Technology and Innovation portfolio.

During her studies and after completing her PhD in parasitology at McGill University in 1990, Dr Tanguay has been actively involved in research and science policy both on the federal and provincial scene. She successively occupied the position of research policy analyst at the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, senior planning analyst at the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and of secretary general of Fonds FCAR, a provincial granting agency. Prior to her recent nomination as assistant deputy minister, she was vice-president Development at the Centre quécois de valorisation des biotechnologies (CQVB), an organisation involved in the enhancement of technology transfer in biotechnologies.

Currently, Dr Tanguay sits on the boards of one of the three Quebec research granting council (Fonds québécois de recherche sur la société et la culture), as well as the provincial industrial research centre (Centre de recherche industriel du Québec), the Conseil de la Science et de la Technologie, NanoQuébec and GénomeQuébec.

Science diplomacy is at the intersection of science and international affairs and aims to advance diplomacy and peace through science and to enhance international collaboration through diplomacy. As an emerging field, science diplomacy has increasingly attracted politicians, foreign relations experts and scientists. Two main international institutions, AAAS in the US and science policy center in the UK, have recently established special programs on science diplomacy. In the same context, president Obama has set special priority to science in his foreign diplomacy.

Canada with its international legacy as a peacekeeper, with its mosaic culture and multicultural society can offer a lot in this field. This panel aims to discuss the Canada’s opportunities in science diplomacy and how various resources can be mobilized to advance Canada to become one of the leaders in this area.
 

Moderator
Valérie La Traverse
Deputy Director
S&T Relations
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada

Valérie La Traverse has spent most of her career working in the area of international business and innovation. She is currently the Deputy Director of the Innovation, Science and Technology division at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, with a responsibility for Canada's global science and technology relations. Previously, she was Science and Technology Counsellor at the Canadian Embassy in Washington for five years, where she served as the senior science and technology representative on behalf of the Canadian government in the US. Valerie also opened the Canadian government office in Arizona, worked at Industry Canada managing technology programs, and ran the New England-Canada Business Council, a Boston-based international trade and membership organization. Valérie has a BA in international relations and MBA in international business.

Naser Faruqui
Director, Innovation, Policy and Science
International Development Research Centre

Naser Faruqui leads IDRC research that supports the development of science, technology, and innovation policies in developing countries to alleviate poverty.

Before joining IPS, Naser Faruqui led IDRC research on greywater treatment and reuse, solid-waste management, and the environmental impacts of urbanization. In 1999, he was named one of the top 14 young water specialists in the world by a group of internationally respected water organizations. Faruqui has advised the Canadian government on the political, social, and economic implications of drought in the Middle East; the Canadian International Development Agency on its programs for Jordan and Pakistan; and the World Health Organization on cultural obstacles to wastewater reuse. He has been invited to serve on boards and steering committees of major international initiatives focusing on cities, food and water security, and the consequences of ecosystem change.

Faruqui holds an Executive MBA from Queen’s University and a master’s degree in environmental engineering from the University of Ottawa.

Daryl Copeland
Author, Professor, and former Diplomat
University of Toronto

Daryl Copeland is Adjunct Professor of International Studies and a Senior Fellow at the University of Toronto's Munk Centre and an analyst, author and educator specializing in diplomacy, foreign policy, global issues and public management. His first book, Guerrilla Diplomacy: Rethinking International Relations, was released in July 2009 by Lynne Rienner Publishers. Mr. Copeland received his formal education at the University of Western Ontario (Gold Medal, Political Science; Chancellor’s Prize, Social Sciences) and the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (Canada Council Special MA Scholarship). He has spent years backpacking on six continents, and enjoys travel, photography, arts and the outdoors. Mr. Copeland serves as a peer reviewer for Canadian Foreign Policy, the International Journal, and The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, and is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Place Branding and Public Diplomacy. From 1981 to 2009 Mr. Copeland served as a Canadian diplomat with postings in Thailand, Ethiopia, New Zealand and Malaysia. During the 1980s and 1990s, he was elected five times to the Executive Committee of the Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers. From 1996-99 he was National Program Director of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs in Toronto and Editor of Behind the Headlines, Canada’s international affairs magazine. In 2000, he received the Canadian Foreign Service Officer Award for his “tireless dedication and unyielding commitment to advancing the interests of the diplomatic profession.” Among his positions at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) in Ottawa, Mr. Copeland has worked as Senior Intelligence Analyst, South and Southeast Asia; Deputy Director for International Communications; Director for Southeast Asia; Senior Advisor, Public Diplomacy; Director of Strategic Communications Services; and, Senior Advisor, Strategic Policy and Planning.

Dr. Nina Fedoroff, Ph.D
Willaman Professor of the Life Sciences
Evan Pugh Professor Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
Penn State University

Willaman Professor of the Life Sciences and Evan Pugh Professor, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Penn State University, Distinguished Visiting Professor, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), and Member, External Faculty, The Santa Fe Institute

Nina V. Fedoroff, a leading geneticist and molecular biologist, is the Willaman Professor of Life Sciences and Evan Pugh Professor of Biology at the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University. Fedoroff is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the European Academy of Sciences, as well as other scientific associations. Fedoroff has received several awards and honors, including the 2006 National Medal of Science and the New York Academy of Sciences’ Outstanding Contemporary Woman Scientist award in 1992. She is currently a member of the Science Steering Committee of the Santa Fe Institute and the Board of Directors of the Sigma-Aldrich Chemical Company.

Biotechnology continues to advance new frontiers in medical science, and many Canadian pharmaceutical companies stand out as global competitors in this industry, making a major contribution to Canada’s economy. Nurturing and regulating such technology inevitably presents both opportunities and challenges, and the potential of providing the proper incentives for researchers is paramount. What incentives are needed to overcome challenges and capitalize on the prospects offered by Canadian innovation in this sector?

Moderator
Christopher J. Paige, Ph.D.
Vice President Research
University Health Network

Michèle Savoie, B.Sc. MBA, MPH, Ph.D
General Manager
Montréal Invivo

Michelle Savoie, B.Sc. MBA, MPH, Ph.D. General Manager of Montréal InVivo
Mrs. Michelle Savoie is the General Manager of Montréal InVivo, the life sciences and health technologies cluster of the Montréal metropolitan area.

Mrs. Savoie brings to the organization over 18 years of experience in the health field and pharmaceutical sector. She has held highly strategic positions at various companies, including Schering Canada, Eli Lilly Canada and Bristol-Myers Squibb. She has sat on several strategic committees at Canada’s Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies, at Université de Montréal and in several groups and associations in the health sector. Furthermore, she was actively involved in the creation of the Quebec Consortium for Drug Discovery. Since 2004, she has been teaching at the Faculté de pharmacie of Université de Montréal.

A biochemist by training, Mrs. Savoie also holds an MBA from the University of Ottawa, a Masters in Public Health (MPH) from Boston University and a PhD in biomedical sciences from Université de Montréal.

Mark Lievonen , BBA, MBA, FCA
President
Sanofi Pasteur Limited

Mark Lievonen is President of Sanofi Pasteur Limited, the Canadian vaccine division of the sanofi-aventis Group. Sanofi Pasteur researches, develops and manufactures vaccines for Canadians and for export to global markets.

Mr. Lievonen has been with the company since 1983. He started in the treasury department and was promoted to Corporate Vice President, Finance, in 1988. Since 1990, Mr. Lievonen has held a number of senior management positions, including responsibility for the company’s commercial operations.

Prior to his appointment as President in March 1999, Mr. Lievonen was Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Oncology Business Unit. He was responsible for the strategy and funding of sanofi pasteur’s Cancer Vaccine Program and the global marketing and sales of its cancer immunotherapeutic products.

Mr. Lievonen holds a BBA in accounting and an MBA in finance and marketing from the Schulich School of Business, York University. He is a Chartered Accountant and received his designation in 1981 while working with PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Mr. Lievonen is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Oncolytics Biotech Inc., the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research and BIOTECanada, where he served as Chair from 2000 to May 2003. He is co-chair of the Ontario-Quebec Private Sector Advisory Committee (PSAC), established as part of the Ontario-Quebec Trade and Cooperation Agreement. Mr. Lievonen is the co-chair of the Centre for the Advancement of Health Innovations and a member of the Ontario Investment and Trade Advisory Council. He serves on the Board of Governors of York University and the Markham Stouffville Hospital Foundation Board.

He was a member of the Board of the Ontario Genomics Institute, and served as Chair from 2004-2008. He has also served on a number of industry boards and councils such as BIOCouncil, an advisory group to the Government of Ontario and the Toronto Mayor’s Economic Competitiveness Advisory Committee.

He was Chair of the Steering Committee for the BIO 2002 International Conference which was held in Toronto in June 2002. He also served as a member of the United Way of Greater Toronto Cabinet, chairing the Health Care Division.

Mr. Lievonen was the recipient of a Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medallion in 2002 and was named a Chevalier de l'Ordre National de Mérite by the government of France in 2007. He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario in 2009.

Marc-André Gagnon, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Carleton University

Marc-André Gagnon is Assistant Professor at the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University in Ottawa. He is a research fellow with the Pharmaceutical Policy Research Collaboration and with the Edmond J. Safra Centre for Ethics at Harvard University. He holds a PhD in Political Science from York University and a Masters of Advanced Study in Economics from Paris-1 Sorbonne and Ecole Normale Superieure de Fontenay/St-Cloud. His current research focuses on pharmaceutical policy, dominant business models in the knowledge-based economy, social policy and corporate influence over scientific research and physicians' prescribing habits.

Rahim Rezaei, PhD Candidate
McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health
University of Toronto

Canada's North is a unique part of our planet's diverse biosphere. At the same time, its expansive geography and relative remoteness present Canadian industry and researchers operating in the North with many challenges and opportunities. The ecological significance of Canada's North, especially its Arctic and Polar regions, also presents Canadians with certain environmental responsibilities. As we come to understand the wide variety of data coming in about the Northern regions of our planet as a result of the International Polar Year (2007-2008), Canada's role in Arctic research, industry, and environmental stewardship becomes clearer.

Moderator
Anita Dey Nuttall, Ph.D
Associate Director ( Research Advancement)
Canadian Circumpolar Institute, University of Alberta

Dey Nuttall's research focuses on the interface between science and politics in the Polar Regions, and in particular how a nation’s science policy and strategic interests influence and determine the development of its national Antarctic programs. She is currently developing new research on Canada’s strategy for polar science and development of the Canadian Antarctic Research Program.

David Hik, Ph.D
Professor - University of Alberta
President - International Arctic Science Committee

David Hik, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Northern Ecology in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alberta, and President of the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC). From 2004-2009 he was also Executive Director of the Canadian International Polar Year (IPY) Secretariat.

His research program is focused on experimental and long-term studies of plant-herbivore dynamics and interactions in Arctic and alpine environments. For the past 20 years, most of this work has been conducted in the mountains of the southwest Yukon.

Louis Fortier, Ph.D
Professor
Arctic Net
Université Laval

Trained at Université Laval (B.Sc. 1976; M.Sc. 1979) and McGill University (Ph.D. 1983), a NATO postdoctoral fellow (Plymouth, UK 1984-1985) and Professor at Université Laval since 1989, Louis Fortier studies zooplankton and marine fish population dynamics. In 2001, he created Québec-Océan, a multi-institution research centre that coordinates the efforts of oceanographers based in Quebec’s universities and government laboratories. He holds the Canada Research Chair on the response of arctic marine ecosystems to climate warming. He sits on the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada since 2005.

Stephen Bocking
Professor and Chair
Environmental and Resource Science/Studies Program
Trent University

Stephen Bocking is Professor of environmental history and policy, and Chair of the Environmental and Resource Science/Studies Program, Trent University. His research interests include the history of environmental science, and the roles of science in environmental policy. Current projects include a study of the history of environmental research in the Canadian Arctic, as well as studies of the science and politics of salmon aquaculture and biodiversity conservation. His publications include Ecologists and Environmental Politics: A History of Contemporary Ecology (Yale University Press, 1997), and Nature's Experts: Science, Politics, and the Environment (Rutgers University Press, 2004).

Peter Harrison, Ph.D
Professor/Director of the School of Policy Studies
Stauffer-Dunning Chair in Policy Studies
Queens' University, School of Policy Studies

Dr. Peter Harrison is Professor, Stauffer-Dunning Chair and Director of the School of Policy Studies (SPS) at Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario). From 2008-2009 he was the Skelton-Clark Fellow in the School.

Dr. Harrison’s career as a senior member of the Public Service of Canada lasted nearly 30 years. During this time he served as the Deputy Minister (Permanent Secretary) of a number of federal Departments including Natural Resources Canada, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, the Leadership Network, the National Research Council of Canada (Senior Research Fellow, Oceans) and Indian Residential Schools Resolution Canada.

Dr. Harrison was responsible for shepherding the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) by the Government of Canada in 2003; the investment of $150 million in the International Polar Year; and, as Senior Associate Deputy Minister of the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, the development of the Government’s current Northern Strategy, the commitment to a new “High Arctic research Station”, and the Canada-UK Memorandum of Understanding regarding Arctic Research.

A unique showcase demonstrating a new era of research innovation – using leading-edge technologies enabled by CANARIE.

Dr. Paul Davenport will be announcing the findings of an expert panel assessment on research integrity in Canada. The Council of Canadian Academies was asked by the Government of Canada to conduct this evidence-based assessment in 2009.

Moderator
Margaret McCuaig-Johnston
Executive Vice-President
NSERC

Paul Davenport, Ph.D
Chair of the Expert Panel on Research Integrity
Council of Canadian Academies

Join the The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Member of Parliament for Cambridge & North Dumfries, and Minister of State (Science and Technology).

Hon. Gary Goodyear
Minister of State (Science and Technology)
MP Cambridge & North Dumfries

Gary Goodyear was first elected to the House of Commons in 2004 and re-elected in 2006, 2008 and 2011. He was appointed Minister of State (Science and Technology) in October 2008, and Minister of State (Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario) in August 2009.

Prior to entering federal politics, Dr. Goodyear practised chiropractic medicine and worked as an advisor to investment firms in the biomedical industry.

Dr. Goodyear was a co-designer of a three-year post-graduate sports fellowship program. He also co-authored "Practice Guidelines" and was Public Relations Director and President for the College of Chiropractic Sports Sciences in Toronto. Dr. Goodyear has taught at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College and the University of Waterloo. He has worked with many athletes, both amateur and professional, including serving as medical services chair for the Ontario Special Olympics.

Dr. Goodyear attended the University of Waterloo specializing in kinesiology and psychology before graduating from the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College.

He is married to Valerie and they have two children.

Successful science policy requires all stakeholders to communicate and interact effectively. Socially engaged scientists and engineers share this responsibility and must be adequately prepared for the task. Unfortunately, the status quo in Canada is inadequate in educating future scientists and engineers to become socially engaged leaders. This panel will attempt to dissect current shortcomings and discuss helpful models and possible solutions to this important Canadian issue.

Moderator
Josée Nadia Drouin
Writer/Blogist
Agence Science-Presse

Hans Hilgenkamp, Ph.D
Professor of Physics
University of Twente and Leiden University, Netherlands
Former (board) member of The Young Academy of the Netherlands. Co-founder of the Global Young Academy

Professor Dr. Hans Hilgenkamp obtained his M.Sc. and PhD (1995) in Applied Physics at the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, specializing in superconductivity. Between 1995 and 2000 he worked as a post-doc at the IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland and the University of Augsburg, Germany, before returning to the University of Twente. In 2005 he was appointed there as a full professor. Since 2007 he is also visiting professor in the Faculties of Science and Engineering at the National University of Singapore, and in the fall of 2007 he spent three months at CSIRO Sydney, Australia.
Professor Hilgenkamp is a board member of the Young Academy of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences. His research relates to the physics and applications of materials with unconventional electronic properties, such as high temperature superconductors and related compounds. He has published about 100 articles, and holds three patents. He has been awarded the Dutch ‘VIDI’ and ‘VICI’ research grants and the University of Twente Central Education Prize.

Jonathan Fishbein
Coordinator, Curriculum Enhancement
Engineers Without Borders

Jonathan has been passionate about development for as long as he can remember, but he didn't realize how many people shared his passion until he came across EWB. While studying Software Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Jonathan became amazed by the organisation's energy and thoughtfulness. He went on to help co-found EWB's Waterloo Professional chapter and served as its president for two years.

Having now completed a Masters degree in Systems Design Engineering, Jonathan has joined the EWB National Office as the Director for Curriculum Enhancement and Global Engineers. His responsibilities include coordinating EWB's post-secondary curriculum initiatives at universities across Canada and developing EWB's vision for the future of engineering education and the training of global engineers.

Dr. Amir Khadir
MNA
National Assembly of Québec

Amir Khadir was the first Quebec solidaire candidate elected to the National Assembly of Quebec, representing the district of Mercier since December of 2008. He acts as the spokesperson of this young political party, after having taken part in the founding of the Union des Forces Progressistes in 2003.

A medical specialist in infectious microbiology, he practices at the Centre hospitalier Pierre-Le-Gardeur in Lachenaie. Active for many years in the community of international solidarity, Khadir is a member of the Coalition des Médecins pour la Justice Sociale (Coalition of Doctors for Social Justice), which opposes the privatization of the Quebec health system. He has led missions to Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Palestinian territories for Médecins du Monde.

Govind Gopakumar, Ph.D
Assistant Professor, GSU
Concordia University

Hailed as the coming revolution in energy production, bioenergy is an emerging field grappling with several key issues of science policy. The development of such technologies promises to solve several key problems facing Canada and the world. This makes it necessary to effectively bring emerging technologies from lab to the marketplace in an optimal time frame, and to anticipate and create appropriate kinds of infrastructure to help overcome initial market barriers. How do we balance the needs of public policy leaders with industry stakeholders while facing up to society's need to have such technologies commercialized?

Moderator
Dr. Marc Saner, Ph.D
Associate Professor & Director of Institute for Science, Society, and Policy
University of Ottawa

Marc Saner is an Associate Professor and the inaugural Director of the new Institute for Science, Society and Policy at the University of Ottawa in Canada (starting July 1, 2010). Until recently, he was Executive Director, Regulatory Governance Initiative, School of Public Policy and Administration, at Carleton University. Prior to building the Regulatory Governance Initiative (www.regulatorygovernance.ca), he helped establish the Council of Canadian Academies (www.scienceadvice.ca) as Director of Assessments and Executive Vice-President. Previously, Dr. Saner was a Director at the Institute On Governance (www.iog.ca) where he built the Ethics and Risk Management Sector and co-managed the Technology and Governance Program. For the last decade, his primary interest has been the multi-disciplinary work at the intersection of science, ethics and governance.

Dr. Saner has published in peer-reviewed journals in the areas of technology ethics, bioethics, risk management, biotechnology and ecology and has been invited to speak at seminars, workshops and international conferences around the world. He holds a Ph.D. in applied ecology from the University of Basel, Switzerland (1991) as well as an M.A. in applied ethics from Carleton University (1999). He is also appointed Adjunct Research Professor in Philosophy and in Biology at Carleton University.

Don G. Roberts
Vice Chairman and Managing Director
CIBC World Markets Inc.

Alison Ouellet
Director of Government Affairs
Canadian Renewable Fuels Association

A seasoned political insider, Ms. Ouellet boasts a thorough understanding of Parliament Hill, its players and the process that supports decision-making. Her role as a leading advocate for renewable fuels means working closely with both the industry and governments at all levels.

In her previous career, Ms. Ouellet served as a political aide to two federal Members of Parliament, and held a key national outreach position with a major political party in the Nation's Capital. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Degree from the University of Ottawa and is a member of the Canadian Society of Association Executives.

Celine Bak
Partner
Russel Mitchel Group

Céline Bak is an internationally recognized author, speaker and consultant on clean technology and on innovation and commercialization. She published and authored a ground-breaking national report on clean technology and on commercialization – the 2010 SDTC Cleantech Growth & Go-to-Market Report. Also published by her firm, the 2011 Canadian Clean Technology Industry Report builds on the 2010 baseline data set for Canada’s multibillion dollar clean technology industry that Analytica Advisors projects has the potential to attain $60 billion in annual revenues by 2020.

She is the co-founder of the Canadian Clean Technology Coalition that was struck to create the conditions required to make Canada’s clean technology industry an driver of Canada’s economic and energy productivity as well as an enabler for Canada’s green house gas reduction targets. Céline sits on the Clean Tech Advisory Board for the Department of Foreign Affairs and is a technical advisor to the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy for Climate Prosperity. She was the co-chair of the 2011 Canadian Cleantech Summit and sits on the nominations committee for the Canada Clean50. She is the chair of the Canada-Brazil Working Group for Clean Technology and Green Energy.

She resides in Ottawa with her husband and three daughters.

Catherine Cobden
Vice President, Economics and Regulatory Affairs
FPAC

Catherine Cobden is Vice President, Economics and Regulatory Affairs for FPAC. She is responsible for economic competitiveness and environmental regulatory files affecting Canada’s pulp, paper and wood products sector. She supports FPAC members on issues ranging from forest sector transformation, taxation, competition, energy and climate change. She is also responsible for development and implementation of FPAC’s bioenergy strategy.

Prior to joining FPAC, Catherine was a lobbyist on Parliament Hill representing the interests for natural resource sectors to the federal government. In this capacity she helped shape environmental policy for mining, coal, electricity, and forest products industries. She has also held several positions within the pulp and paper industry, including Director, Environment for a global newsprint producer. She has successfully completed complex approvals for large operations, including a green-field sawmill operation and managed the environmental remediation of a full-scale pulp mill closure in Canada. As well, Ms. Cobden has participated in several corporate teams assessing global merger, acquisition and divestiture opportunities.

Research infrastructure plays an invaluable role in connecting scientific community across the globe. It is instrumental in data-driven research, big science projects and global R&D collaborations, which enable researchers to connect, collaborate. Advances in information technology have provided scientists with new capabilities of data storage, acquisition and sharing capabilities. The panel is to discuss issues related to the global dimension of research infrastructures based on the practical experience of representative examples in Canada , US and Europe.

Moderator
Paul Dufour
Principal
Paulicy Works

Mr. Dufour was most recently based at Natural Resources Canada, on executive interchange from the Canadian-based International Development Research Centre. He was previously the interim Executive Director at the former Office of the National Science Advisor in the federal Government advising on international S&T matters and broad questions of R&D directions for the country. He has a rich experience in addressing the interaction between science and international relations, especially in the context of research capacity with the developing world.

Born in Montréal, he was educated at McGill, the Université de Montreal, and Concordia University in the history of science and science policy, and has had practical S&T policy experience for over three decades.

Jim Roche
President & Chief Executive Officer
CANARIE Inc.

Jim was appointed President and CEO of CANARIE in February 2010. He is a successful entrepreneur with over twenty-five years of leadership experience, having been a founding member and General Manager at Newbridge Networks Corporation (now Alcatel-Lucent), a co-founder and CEO of Tundra Semiconductor (now IDT), the CEO of CMC Microsystems and the founder and CEO of Stratford Managers, a company he continues to lead. In addition to his corporate duties, he also serves on numerous boards and committees including the ICT Advisory Board for DFAIT, the Committee of Research Partnerships for NSERC, the Expert Panel on Business Innovation for CCA and others. He is also an Executive-in-Residence at the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa and is frequently called on to speak about entrepreneurship, commercialization of innovation, and strategy development.

Jim holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Queen’s University, where he graduated at the top of his class and won multiple scholarships. He has added to his management skills through intensive programs at Stanford, Ivey, Queen’s and elsewhere.

Dr. Martin Taylor, Ph.D
President and CEO
Ocena Networks Canada

Martin Taylor is President and CEO of Ocean Networks Canada, the not for profit agency responsible for the management and development of the VENUS and NEPTUNE Canada ocean observatory programs, and the Ocean Networks Centre for Enterprise and Engagement, a federal centre of excellence for commercialization and research. Before assuming this position in 2007, he served for nine years (1998-2007) as the University of Victoria’s first Vice-President Research. During his term, the research programs grew rapidly with annual grant and contract income more than tripling to over $80M in 2005-06. He was directly accountable to the Board of Governors for the major research platforms established at the University, including the VENUS and NEPTUNE Canada ocean observatories, and the national proteomics centre supported by Genome Canada and Genome BC. He had executive responsibility for the University’s 15 interdisciplinary research centres. He has had extensive governance experience related to his role as ONC President, including as: a member of the federal Council of Science and Technology Advisors; a member of the SSHRC Board; a Board member and chair of the finance committee of TRIUMF; a board member and chair of the Michael Smith Health Research Foundation; a director of Discovery Parks Trust, a BC organization promoting university research park development; and as Board Chair of the Innovation and Development Corporation, UVic’s IP management and technology transfer organization. Prior to his appointment at UVic, Martin Taylor served from 1974-98 on the faculty at McMaster University, where his responsibilities included: chair of Geography (1991-97); founding director of the Institute of Environment and Health (1990-96); and Acting VP Research (1994-95). He holds a BA (Hons Geography) from Bristol University and an MA and PhD in Geography from UBC. He is the author of two books and over 100 peer-reviewed publications in the field of environmental and community health.

Susan Baldwin
Executive Director
Compute/Calcul Canada

Susan Baldwin has recently been appointed Executive Director of Compute Canada. Before then she was with CANARIE for eight years and most recently held the position of Chief Administrative Officer. Prior to joining CANARIE she held senior executive positions at the CRTC, Canadian Heritage, and Industry Canada in a variety of fields including broadcasting, new media, telecommunications, information highway, spectrum management and R&D. She has extensive experience in international negotiations on behalf of the Government of Canada.

Politicians understand on an intuitive level that Science is important and that Canada, in order to compete, must fund scientific research. But beyond that, understanding the nature of Science and how best to formulate Science policy are much less well understood. That is probably the most important reason why I personally decided to become involved in politics, in the hopes of making a contribution to this critical area of government policy. It has been a most interesting journey so far but there is a long way to go.

Moderator
Yves Joanette, Ph.D.
Président-directeur général
Fonds de la recherche en santé du Québec

On February 11, 2009, Yves Joanette, Ph. D, was appointed by the Cabinet of the Government of Québec to Chair the FRSQ's Board of Directors and to be agency's President and the Chief Executive Officer.
Yves Joanette is a full professor at Université de Montréal's Faculty of Medicine and has been the Director of the Centre de recherche de l'Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal (CRIUGM) since 1997. He is a member of the Ordre des orthophonistes et audiologistes du Québec, the professional corporation of Québec speech therapists and audiologists.
Yves Joanette was a Canadian Institutes of Health Research grant awardee from 1982 to 1992. He has earned numerous distinctions, including the Club de recherches cliniques du Québec (CRCQ) André-Dupont prize in 1990 and the Eve Kassier Award for his outstanding professional achievements (1995). He is a member of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. In 2007, he received an honorary doctorate from Université Lumière de Lyon, France.

Honourable Dr. Marc Garneau, Ph.D
Former Astronaut
Federal MP of Westmount Ville-Marie

Marc Garneau has served his country his entire professional career, beginning with the Canadian Navy and then as an astronaut and President of the Canadian Space Agency , and now in political life. Garneau resigned from the Canadian Space Agency to run under the Liberal banner in Vaudreuil–Soulanges in 2006. After the last federal elections, he remained very involved in politics and played a determining role in the Liberal Renewal Commission by drafting its Science and Technology position paper. He also helped draft a number of resolutions aimed at clarifying the Canadian mission in Afghanistan, the resolution of fiscal unbalance and the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol.

Globalization has generated new patterns of networking and changed the way knowledge is being generated. International collaboration is becoming an essential element of scientific research and innovation in the 21st century. Ensuring the contribution of international collaboration of scientific projects to innovation and sustainable development is an emerging necessity of the world. This is a collective effort of scientific community, policy makers and government, business community as well as the NGOs. This panel discusses the most important issues of international S&T collaboration, innovation and sustainable development.

Moderator
John R. McDougall
President
National Research Council Canada

Mr. John R. McDougall, a leader in Canadian science and technology policy and innovation, was appointed as NRC's President in April 2010.

Born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta and honoured as one of the province's 50 most influential citizens, Mr. McDougall's career spans many sectors, with a broad and far reaching range of accomplishments and roles to his credit.

Until recently, Mr. McDougall served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Alberta Research Council (ARC), a position he has held for the past 12 years.

Mr. McDougall's career began with a decade served as a petroleum engineer. This quickly evolved into the ownership and management of an international engineering consulting firm. Following this, he held a number of influential positions with some of Canada's most innovative research and manufacturing businesses, consortium and not-for-profit organizations.

Always an active participant in professional and community affairs, Mr. McDougall has contributed to a number of prominent advisory boards and committees, both on the provincial and federal levels during the course of his 43-year career.

He was a member of the NRC-Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) Advisory Board from 2002 to 2006 and also contributed to the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the AUTO21 Network of Centres of Excellence, the Edmonton Space & Science Foundation and the Environmental Protection Advisory Committee.

A fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineers and Engineers Canada, Mr. McDougall has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Alberta, with a number of postgraduate courses in Environmental Engineering to his credit. From 1991 to 1997, he served as the university's first Poole Chair in Management for Engineers, a leadership position within the Faculty of Engineering.

Mr. McDougall was founding Chair and President of Innoventures Canada.

Peter Singer, MD, MPH, FRCPC, FRSC
Director
McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health

Professor Peter A. Singer is CEO of Grand Challenges Canada, Professor of Medicine, Sun Life Financial Chair in Bioethics, and Director at the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, University Health Network and University of Toronto.

Singer's research is on life sciences and the developing world – how technologies make the transition from “lab to village”. In 2007, Singer received the Michael Smith Prize as Canada’s Health Researcher of the Year in Population Health and Health Services. He is the Foreign Secretary of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the US Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, and The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World. He has published over 280 research articles, received over $50 million in research grants, and trained over 70 students. Singer is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges for Global Health Initiative, and has advised the UN Secretary General's Office, the Government of Canada, several African governments, and Pepsico Inc. on issues related to global health. He studied internal medicine at University of Toronto, medical ethics at University of Chicago, public health at Yale University, and management at Harvard Business School. He is a former chairman of Branksome Hall School for Girls in Toronto.

Joseph Hubert
VP Research and International Relations
UdeMontreal

Joseph Hubert is a professor in the Department of Chemistry, where he assumed the leadership role from of 1987 to 1994, before becoming Assistant Dean, then Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. From 2007 to 2010, he served as Vice Rector, Research. In his capacity as administrator, Mr. Hubert has strongly supported research across all fields of learning. He encouraged the development of researchers, both nationally and internationally, by creating clusters and strategic networks based on inter-institutional and multidisciplinary teams and supporting the establishment of close relations with industries and grant councils.
A specialist in instrumental analytical chemistry, Joseph Hubert is a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris (Diploma in Chemical Engineering), the Sorbonne (BSc) and the Université de Montréal (MA and PhD in Chemistry). A fellow and recipient of the Fisher Award from the Canadian Society for Chemistry, he was named a Companion of Lavoisier, the highest recognition in chemistry in Quebec, in addition to receiving the Medal of Montreal, the highest honour accorded by the Canadian Chemical Industry Institute.

Dr. Ilse Treurnicht, Ph.D
CEO
MaRS Discovery District

Ilse Treurnicht is the CEO of MaRS Discovery District, a leading innovation centre located in Toronto. She oversees both the development and operations of the MaRS Centre and its broad suite of entrepreneurship and innovation programs.

MaRS offers advisory services, market intelligence and entrepreneurship education to emerging companies in health care/life sciences, information technology, communications and entertainment (ICE), cleantech and social purpose businesses across Ontario.

Ilse has worked closely with the leadership of Toronto's academic institutions and teaching hospitals to create MaRS Innovation, an integrated commercialization platform for 14 Toronto Institutions and served as the interim Managing Director for a year following its formal launch in early 2008.

Ilse joined MaRS in early 2005 from her role as President & CEO of Primaxis Technology Ventures, a start-up stage venture capital fund focused on the advanced technologies sector. Prior to Primaxis, Ilse was an entrepreneur with senior management roles in a number of emerging technology companies.

She is an active member of Canada's innovation community, and has served on the boards of private companies, industry associations and research organizations, and has been a member of several government advisory panels.

Ilse holds a DPhil in chemistry from Oxford University, which she attended as a Rhodes scholar.

In 2009, Dr. Treurnicht was inducted into Women's Executive Network's Canada's Most Powerful Women Top 100 Hall of Fame.

Howard Bergman, MD
Vice President, Scientific Affairs
Fonds de la recherche en santé du Québec

Howard Bergman MD is Vice-President and Scientific Director of the Fonds de la Recherche en Santé du Québec (FRSQ).

He is a Professor of Medicine, Family Medicine and Oncology and the first Dr. Joseph Kaufmann Professor of Geriatric Medicine at McGill University and the Jewish General Hospital. From 1993-2009, he was Director of the Division of Geriatric Medicine at McGill University and of the Jewish General Hospital. He is an investigator at Solidage: the McGill University/Université de Montréal Research Group on Frailty and Aging as well as at the Bloomfield Centre for Research on Aging at the Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital He is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Health Administration, Université de Montréal and Invited Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Université de Lausanne in Switzerland and the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

Dr. Bergman is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. He is a past President of the Canadian Geriatrics Society which awarded him the Ronald Cape Distinguished Service Award, a past Scientific Director of the FRSQ Quebec Network for Research in Aging, a Past President of the Consortium of Canadian Centers for Clinical Cognitive Research (C5R) and a past Chair of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Ageing of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

In the fields of aging, chronic disease, frailty and health services, Dr. Bergman was from 1999-2009 co-Director of Solidage: the McGill University/Université de Montréal Research Group on Frailty and Aging. As well, Dr. Bergman led a group of Canadian and international investigators in the Canadian Initiative on Frailty and Ageing and leads the International Database Inquiry on Frailty. In the area of Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders, Dr. Bergman was co director of the Jewish General Hospital/McGill University memory clinic and research program.

In 2000-2001, Dr. Bergman was a member of the “Clair Commission”, an independent Commission set up by the Quebec government to propose reforms to the health care system.. Appointed by the Quebec Minister of Health, Dr. Bergman in 2007-09 chaired a task force with the mandate to propose the Quebec Alzheimer Plan, an action plan from prevention to end of life care, including the research agenda.

Dr. Bergman is a member of the board of directors of the Institute for Research on Public Policy and of AllerGen, the Canadian Allergy, Genes and Environment Network. He serves as consultant to Regional Health Boards and provincial Ministries in Canada and other countries as well as to industry. He is the honorary co-president of the recently created Société International francophone d’oncogériatrie.

With Technology Transfer Offices and Science Parks springing out across Canada and globally, and more and more academics looking at industry while Industry looks to academia for the next big idea, what are the best models for capitalizing on the output from Universities?

Moderator
Graham Bell, Ph.D
Professor
McGill University
President of the Academy of Science, Royal Society of Canada

Paul Doherty, MSc, MBA, PhD, PEng
Director of International Entrepeneurship
University of Waterloo, Stratford Campus

Paul has research interests in strategic management, strategy implementation, business intelligence systems, supply chain logistics/process optimization and business governance and ethics.

Lorne Whitehead, Ph.D
Leader of Education Innovation
Professor and 3M/NSERC Chair
University of British Columbia

Dr. Lorne A. Whitehead is a Professor and Chairholder of the NSERC/3M Industrial Research Chair in Structured Surface Physics at UBC. He is currently the Chair of the Board of Directors for SunCentral Inc., as well as a founder and the primary inventor of SunCentral’s Core Sunlight System. Dr. Whitehead’s research interests involve optical, electrical and mechanical properties of microstructured surfaces, and he holds more than 100 patents, and he has a substantial amount of expertise in technology transfer. In 1984, he founded TIR Systems Ltd., subsequently purchased in 2006 by Philips Lighting, to commercialize his invention of the prism light guide. This led to an invention using a microprismatic film to double the efficiency of light fixtures. This UBC-owned patent, subsequently purchased by 3M Company, was critical to the commercialization of 3M's Brightness Enhancement Film™, which is felt to have revolutionized the flat panel display industry. More recently, he has helped spin off several other companies, including Brightside Technologies, a company arising from his invention of the high dynamic range display and acquired in 2006 by Dolby Laboratories. Dr. Whitehead is currently the president of the Canadian National Committee of Commission Internationale de l’Eclairage, the international organization responsible for setting standards on all matters relating to the science and art of light and illumination. As a result of his expertise, he is routinely invited to give presentations on topics related to illumination at international conferences as well as to a wide range of industry and university groups.

Kamiel Gabriel, Ph.D
Professor
University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Dr. Gabriel is the former Assistant Deputy Minister of Research and first ever Science Adviser at the Ontario Ministry of Research & Innovation. He holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alexandria, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Manitoba. He holds a diploma in Space Science from the International Space University (H/Q in Strasburg, France), and an M.B.A. from the International Business Centre, Faculty of Commerce, U of S.

Dr. Kamiel Gabriel is the founding Associate Provost of Research at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT). Under his leadership from 2004-2009, UOIT has seen a tremendous growth in its research portfolio boasting over a 30 fold increase in its research funding and is now listed in the top 50 research intensive universities in Canada. In addition, he oversaw the exponential growth of UOIT’s commercialization of research activities leading to the granting of a number of patents and licenses, a spin-off company and tens of invention disclosures.

For thirty years, Dr. Gabriel’s research and scholarly career focused on developing new applications in the area of energy and heat management systems for terrestrial and space applications. His research efforts in the area of energy conservation led to the design of an innovative heat exchanger for heat recovery systems in commercial buildings and residential dwellings.

Dr. Gabriel is the guest speaker in several local, national and international conferences and workshops. He is a co-founder and currently the President and Chair of the Board of the Durham Strategic Energy Alliance (DSEA); a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of the Durham region as an energy-friendly place to do business. He is the recipient of several awards including the Society of Automotive Engineering’s Ralph Teetor Educational Award (aerospace), and is listed in the “who-is-who” internationally. Dr. Gabriel is a fellow of the Canadian Engineering Academy.

Janet Walden
VP Research Partnerships Programs
NSERC-CRSNG

Janet Walden is the Vice President responsible for the Research Partnerships Programs with the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

Janet began her career working in the forestry industry, as an environmental chemist. In 1982, she joined NSERC and since 1997 has been Vice President for Research Partnerships. Janet is responsible for creating and evolving a highly successful spectrum of national policies and partnership programs designed to stimulate increased public-private collaborations and technology transfer, and maximize the benefits to Canada of university research. She has 25 years of experience in leadership positions with NSERC, including 7 years as Director of the Networks of Centres of Excellence. Under her guidance, NSERC’s partnership initiatives have grown to over $180M per annum involving more than 3,600 university researchers and over 1,400 companies annually.

Deemed the "International Year of Biodiversity," 2010 is an opportune time to reassess Canada's science policy for biodiversity research. Given how ecologically diverse Canada’s vast geography is, and how difficult and dynamic ecological research is, science policy in this domain must remain adaptive enough to address and predict new disciplinary challenges. Successful study of Canada’s biologically diverse ecology requires various disciplines to communicate effectively, across national borders that are necessarily and readily crossed by both critical species and scientific knowledge. How do scientists and science policies adequately adapt to moving benchmarks as the subjects they study are experiencing increasingly rapid rates of change?

Moderator
Rees Kassen, Ph.D.
University Research Chair in Experimental Evolution
University of Ottawa

Despite being less than a decade into his career, Dr. Rees Kassen has quickly developed an international reputation. To the astonishment of more established colleagues, he has already published an impressive four papers in the field’s most prestigious journal, Nature. During his time at the University of Ottawa he has developed a strong independent research program and attracted more than $500,000 in research funding. In the process he has proved his strengths in designing and executing microbial experiments to test theory in ecology and evolution. Dr. Kassen manages to serve on a number of committees both at the university and in the community. His work has also attracted considerable media attention, and has been highlighted in the popular press such as CBC-Radio, the Toronto Star, Danish daily newspapers a podcast for the American Society of Microbiologists.

Gunilla Oberg, Ph.D.
Director/Professor
Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability
University of British Columbia

Dr. Gunilla Öberg has a deep interest in collaborative projects that involve students and scholars of diverse backgrounds. She also has a profound interest in transacademic research, i.e. research and education conducted in interaction with partners outside academia. These interests took her to UBC in October 2006 when she became Director of the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES). Gunilla has participated in and lead a number of interdisciplinary research and educational projects related to environmental and sustainability issues. Some of these projects have been closely tied to her own research interests, in other projects, her role has been more that of a facilitator. Some projects have been interdisciplinary within the natural science sphere but most projects span the natural science-social science divide. Gunilla’s research in SWEL focuses on The Biogeochemistry of Chlorine and Sustainable Water Stewardship. She is a faculty associate of the Faculty of Land and Food Systems.

Dr. Murray Rudd, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Environment Department
University of York

Dr. Rudd moved to the University of York (UK) in January 2010 from Newfoundland, where he held a Canada Research Chair in Ecological Economics at Memorial University. Prior to moving to academia, he was as a senior economist for the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Dr. Rudd’s research focuses at the intersection of environmental economics, public policy, and conservation science. He has conducted research on the economic valuation of the ecosystem services, with a special emphasis on wetlands, coasts, and aquatic biodiversity issues. His current research focus in on the identification and prioritization of conservation research questions that are aligned with policy-makers’ information needs. He recently led a collaborative Canadian project that identified Canada’s “Top 40” questions that, if addressed or answered, would advance research to support the development of effective policies and management strategies for species, ecosystems, and ecological processes in Canada. Dr. Rudd is also a member of a research team currently conducting a parallel biodiversity prioritization study in the USA and a new global exercise on research priorities regarding chemical contaminants in the environment. He is on the editorial board of Conservation Biology.

Andrew Gonzalez, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Canada Research Chair in Biodiversity Science
Department of Biology, McGill University

Andrew Gonzalez is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Biodiversity Science, and Director of the Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science at McGill University.

Trained as a community ecologist he now works on three major themes: 1) the evolutionary ecology of biodiversity loss in changing environments, 2) the link between biodiversity and ecosystem function and services in fragmented landscapes, 3) the socioeconomic drivers of biodiversity loss, in particular the impacts of economic inequality. He has also combined experimental and theoretical methods to address the problem of antibiotic resistance in pathogenic microbes.

Prior to arriving at McGill University he spent 4 years as an Assistant Professor at the University of Paris VI, France. He obtained his PhD from Imperial College, London.

Luc Brouillet, Ph.D
Curator
Marie-Victorian Herbarium
Biodiversity Centre Researcher

Coordination among different levels of governments is important to ensure the implementation of effective science policy. Lack of such coordination will effect innovation and commercialization. This panel is aim to discuss deficiencies in our decentralized system and the models for improvement.

Moderator
J. Adam Holbrook, PEng.
Adjunct Professor and Associate Director
Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology
Simon Fraser University

Adam Holbrook is an adjunct professor and Associate Director of the Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology (CPROST), at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC. Prof. Holbrook was trained as a physicist and electrical engineer and is a registered professional engineer in the provinces of Ontario and BC.

After starting his career at Telesat Canada, he joined the federal government of Canada as the program officer for S&T programs at the Treasury Board Secretariat. He later transferred to the Ministry of State for Science and Technology (MOSST), and remained involved in science policy activities for the federal government after MOSST was absorbed into Industry Canada. In 1995 he moved to Simon Fraser University to join CPROST.

At CPROST his research activities centre on the analysis of science, technology and innovation activities in both the public and private sector. He is a member of the management committee of the national Innovation Systems Research Network. He has published extensively in academic journals and has edited three books on regional innovation systems in Canada and has carried out teaching and consulting activities in S&T and innovation policy for several international development agencies.

He is also a member of “Res’eau” an NSERC research network on small rural water systems, both as a researcher and as a representative of users, as the chair of the Bluewater Park Local Advisory Committee (for water) on Bowen island.

George Ross
Deputy Minister
Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
Ontario Ministry of Consumer Services

George Ross was appointed Deputy Minister of Research and Innovation in January 2008 and Deputy Minister of Consumer Services in February 2010.

As Deputy Minister of Research and Innovation, Mr. Ross has been instrumental in developing and advancing Ontario’s $3.2-billion Innovation Agenda.

He has led key initiatives to advance Ontario’s position as a leading innovation jurisdiction, including establishing the province’s new innovation system, the Ontario Network of Excellence (ONE), developing a $161-million Life Sciences Commercialization Strategy, and implementing the successful $150-million Biopharmaceutical Investment Program.

Mr. Ross oversees the government’s flagship research funding program, the Ontario Research Fund, led the establishment of the Centre for Research and Innovation in the Bio-Economy (CRIBE), and leads the $80-million Innovation Demonstration Fund aimed at building strength in Ontario’s clean technology sector.

Mr. Ross has also been responsible for leading major government investments crucial to enhancing Ontario’s knowledge economy, including the $205-million Ontario Venture Capital Fund, and the $250-million Ontario Emerging Technologies Fund — aimed at investing in Ontario’s strong, innovative companies and venture capital funds.

As Deputy Minister of Consumer Services, Mr. Ross and his team are leading the transformation of Ontario’s not-for-profit corporations legislation — to increase member rights and make it easier for Ontario’s 46,000 not-for-profits to operate and do business in today’s marketplace.

Mr. Ross chairs the Ontario Capital Growth Corporation, as well as the Pharmaceutical Innovation Working Group. He co-chairs the Conference Board of Canada’s Centre for the Advancement of Health Innovations, as well as the newly established Joint Committee on Science and Technology Cooperation with the People’s Republic of China.

Dr. Marc Fortin, Ph.D
Assistant Deputy Minister
Ministry of Agriculture

Dr. Marc Fortin joined Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) as Assistant Deputy Minister, Research Branch, in January 2006. Since, he has been leading AAFC’s research activities and the evolution of the Branch toward a role of national leadership in public research while mobilizing and increasing the private research capacity. The conclusion of a federal, provincial and territorial agreement has allowed the acceleration of the pace of innovation in that sector. AAFC’s research activities conducted at 19 research centres across Canada with 500 scientific staff and research professionals among some 2,200. Research Branch is the largest research organization in agriculture and agri-food in Canada.

Prior to leading up AAFC’s Research Branch, Dr. Fortin was at McGill University where he conducted research and teaching in molecular genetics for over 16 years. He also served as Chair and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Science. He led research groups within the university and with national and international collaborators. He was a member of the Royal Society of Canada's Expert Panel on the Future of Food Biotechnology in Canada, a William Dawson Scholar at McGill University, and was Director of Science Policy for the Canadian Society of Plant Physiologists.

Dr. Fortin has published scientific papers in international journals and has participated in many international conferences. He was involved in the development of international projects in China and East Africa. He is a graduate of McGill University and of Université Laval, and conducted research at The University of Chicago and at The University of California at Davis.

Dr. Geneviève Tanguay, Ph.D
Assistant Deputy Minister
Ministry of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade, Québec Government

Dr Geneviève Tanguay became assistant deputy minister in the ministry of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade in January 2007. She is responsible for the Research, Science, Technology and Innovation portfolio.

During her studies and after completing her PhD in parasitology at McGill University in 1990, Dr Tanguay has been actively involved in research and science policy both on the federal and provincial scene. She successively occupied the position of research policy analyst at the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, senior planning analyst at the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and of secretary general of Fonds FCAR, a provincial granting agency. Prior to her recent nomination as assistant deputy minister, she was vice-president Development at the Centre quécois de valorisation des biotechnologies (CQVB), an organisation involved in the enhancement of technology transfer in biotechnologies.

Currently, Dr Tanguay sits on the boards of one of the three Quebec research granting council (Fonds québécois de recherche sur la société et la culture), as well as the provincial industrial research centre (Centre de recherche industriel du Québec), the Conseil de la Science et de la Technologie, NanoQuébec and GénomeQuébec.

Canada is becoming one of the most diverse countries in the world and our science policy must reflect this diversity. It is no longer sufficient, if it ever was, to view science policy from solely a federal government perspective. Our science policy must build bridges not just across all levels of government and all sectors of the economy, but also with all parts of our multilingual, multicultural society. This panel will explore the challenges and opportunities related to building a strong science culture in our diverse society.

Moderator
Ursula Gobel
Director of Communications
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Ursula Gobel is Director of Communications at the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Ursula oversees the development and implementation of strategic communications at SSHRC as well as for a number of international programs on behalf of Canada’s three research agencies, including the Canada Research Chairs, the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships, and the most recently announced Canada Excellence Research Chairs.

As a communications and marketing professional for close to 30 years, Ursula has held senior roles in organizations across public, private and non-for-profit sectors. Prior to joining SSHRC in 2007, Ursula held the position of Director, Marketing, for the Olympic Swim team at Swimming Canada. Previously in the private sector, she was Senior Counsel with Delta Media, a leading public relations firm in Ottawa. During her 19-year career at the National Gallery of Canada in marketing and communications, Ursula received the City of Ottawa’s top tourism honour, when she was named Tourism Person of the Year.

She has served on governance boards for Sport Matters, the Canadian Sport Tourism Alliance, and the Canadian Tourism Commission.

Yves Gingras, Ph.D.
Professor
Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

Yves Gingras has been a professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) since 1986. He was initially appointed to the Department of Sociology, then to the Department of History, where he has been teaching since 1989. In 1997, Gingras co-founded the Observatoire des sciences et des technologies, where he currently holds the position of scientific director. The OST is an organisation devoted to “measuring” science, technology and innovation and affiliated with the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIRST). Fifteen years after he began working at the CIRST, he became director of the research centre from 2001 to 2005, at which time gave up the position in order to dedicate himself to the Canada Research Chair in the History and Sociology of Science. The current mandate of the Research Chair ends in 2010.

Denise Amyot
President and CEO
Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation

Denise Amyot is currently, President and CEO of the Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation whose mandate is to foster scientific and technological literacy throughout the country. The Corporation and its three museums – the Canada Agriculture Museum, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, and the Canada Science and Technology Museum – tell the stories of Canadian ingenuity and achievement in science and technology.

She has worked both in National Headquarters and in regions in several federal departments including central agencies, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, National Defense, Natural Resources Canada, and Canadian Heritage. In her former three roles as Assistant Deputy Minister, she was respectively responsible for leading and managing leadership development programs and developing policies for employees and executives throughout the public Service of Canada, the corporate management services, as well as public affairs and ministerial services. She has worked extensively in policy and line operations in the context of programs and service delivery, in social, economic, and cultural areas. She also worked for few years with the Government of the Northwest Territories.

Ms Amyot is the former President of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada, Vice-President of the Head of Federal Agencies Steering Committee, and member of the Board of Governors at the Ottawa University and at the Algonquin College. She is the former President of the Association of Professional Executives of the Public Service of Canada and former President of the Communications Community Office.

Ms Amyot has obtained a Master's degree in Education and three Bachelor degrees in Biology, in Arts and in Education.

Raymond Lauzier
Chair, Science Advisory Committee
Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC)

Over the past 10 years, Mr. Lauzier has been a very strong advocate of Canadian public science through a number of elected political positions in the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC). Mr. Lauzier is the Chair of the Science Advisory Committee, which provides advice and recommendations to the PIPSC Board of Directors on science and public science issues faced by science professionals working in the federal public sector. The Committee also provides advice and recommendations on the PIPSC advocacy role for public science in Canada and for restoration of permanent (A-Base) science-based departmental funding.

In his science career, Mr. Lauzier has over twenty-five years experience as a government research biologist with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, as well as five years in the private sector as an environmental consultant. His previous work focused on salmon habitat research and environmental impact assessment of industrial developments. More recently, he has worked as a senior invertebrate assessment biologist providing advice to fisheries management, aquaculture development and habitat management. Over the past three years Mr. Lauzier has been working with a team to implement the Wild Salmon Policy, Canada’s policy for the conservation of wild Pacific salmon, as well as serving as Chair of the Pacific Scientific Advice Review Subcommittee on Invertebrates. He holds a M.Sc. in Marine Toxicology from Simon Fraser University and a B.Sc. (Hons) from the University of Ottawa.

In order to remain competitive in Science and Technology on a global scale, it is becoming increasingly important to have strategic flow between business and science, locally, nationally, and internationally. It is critical to ensure appropriate investment in science and innovation and various models and programs which could encourage investment in science and innovation will be explored. This will enable quicker turnover of science and discovery into implementation and economic gain. As part of this strategy it is important to ensure our system enables and encourages Canadian and foreign investment.

Moderator
Jeremy Grushcow, Ph.D., J.D.
Lawyer
Business Law Ogilvy Renault LLP

Jeremy Grushcow's practice focuses on life science, cleantech and other technology-intensive transactions. He has represented private equity firms, investment banks, operating companies and founders in connection with public and private offerings, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other strategic transactions, licensing and outsourcing agreements, operating and service agreements and ongoing disclosure advice.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Grushcow practised in the area of intellectual property transactions and in capital markets at two US-based international law firms.

Jean-Louis Legault
President
ADRIQ

Jean-Francois Giroux
Directeur, Capital de Risque, Groupe EEEM
Groupe EEEM
Business Development Bank of Canada

Mr. Giroux joined BDC Venture Capital in 2001. Before that, he was a project manager with Honeywell's Industrial Control Division and was responsible for managing multiple engineering projects in the field of process control - from the design to the commissioning phase – for the pulp and paper and newspaper printing press industries, among others. Mr. Giroux also has project management and sales experience in the field of industrial ventilation and instrumentation (Preston Phipps). Mr. Giroux is a co-founder and serves on the board of Emerging Partners, a non profit organization that fosters business relationships and learning opportunities within the Quebec venture capital and private equity community. He is also a member and serves on the board of MicroTEQ-10, a non profit organization that aims to bolster collaboration between microelectronics companies in Quebec.

Mr. Giroux holds an MBA with a major in Finance and Information Technology from HEC Montréal and a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from École Polytechnique de Montréal.

Chummer Farina, Ph.D.
Vice President
Canadian Space Agency

Chummer Farina was appointed Vice-President of the Canadian Space Agency on July 5th, 2010 and is based at the Government Liaison Office in Ottawa.

Mr. Farina joins the CSA following a distinguished 30-year career in the Public Service, most recently as Director General, Aerospace, Defense and Marine Branch at Industry Canada. He has a wealth of knowledge and experience of aerospace issues, the Canadian industry and Government priorities, systems and processes. Previously he has held positions as Director General, Policy and Sector Services, Director General, Intergovernmental Relations and Outreach, Director General, Strategic Policy and was the first Executive Director of the Prime Minister's Advisory Council on Science and Technology.

Chummer is a Commonwealth Scholar and holds a PhD in Policy from the University of Manchester in the UK.

Susan Gorges
CEO
SpringBoard West Innovations Inc.

She has worked with two different start-up companies in the manufacturing and IT sectors. With her assistance both companies grew to become global operations with more than $150 million in annual revenue. She has been the Board Chair of the Santa Fe Business Incubator as well as the Board Chair of the Coronado Ventures Forum. She has been a member of the Advisory Board for Mesa Ventures, the Chair of the Process Industries Special Interest Group of the American Production and Inventory Control Society, and an advisor to the Los Alamos Office of Commercialization.
Susan is a native of Saskatchewan and a graduate of the University of Regina.

Trina Foster, Ph.D.
Vice-President
Business Development, Science-Metrix